Assistant Professor (ECE)

• Primary Appointment Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Education PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2014
• Honors and Awards Second Place, CSAW Europe Best Applied Research Award, 2017
  Finalist, CSAW Europe Best Applied Research Award, 2017
  Finalist, CSAW North America Best Applied Research Award, 2017
  Best Paper Nominee, International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017
  Best Paper Award, APWG eCrime Symposium, 2017
  Nominee, UCLU Student Choice Teaching Awards, University College London Union, 2017
  Nominee, UCLU Student Choice Teaching Awards, University College London Union, 2016
  Google Research Award, Google Inc., 2015
  Outstanding Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, 2014
  Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship, Symantec Corp., 2012
  Best Student Paper Award, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2010
  Summa cum laude honors, Università degli Studi di Genova, 2009
• Areas of Interest Data-driven methods to better understand and mitigate malicious activity online (cybercrime, online harassment, trolling, disinformation)
  System security with an application to mobile systems and malware mitigation
  Web securityOnline social network security